1. Jungian Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Such images and concepts are known as archetypes and according to Jungian theory are core to understanding the stories shared in myths for they elucidate fundamental aspects of human psychology. ... When deconstructing myth in terms of archetypes it is important to consider that the psychological and psychoanalytical context underlying such an analyses is only one means of studying myth and does not exist without its critics. In "the structural study of myth" Claude Levi Strauss argues that shifting the focus of myth from an attempt to explain natural and cosmological forces to one r...
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